Domaine Jean-Michel Gerin was founded in Ampuis, in the Northern Rhone Valley, in 1983 by Jean-Michel Gerin. Gerin is the son of Alfred Gerin, a well-known producer in Cote Rotie and a politician. Today Jean-Michel Gerin owns and works 30 acres in the Rhone Valley and also is part of a wine producing venture in Spain where his partners are two other winemakers from Southern France. Domaine Jean-Michel Gerin’s flagship wines are its Cote-Roties, though it also makes Viognier. Robert M. Parker Jr. has called Gerin “one of the up-and-coming stars in Cote-Rotie.”